Chapter 288: The Prelude to War

On the vast blue sea, following a flash of lightning, the sails of a pirate ship were instantly scorched into charcoal.

The pirate ship, which had been traveling at high speed, slowed down almost in an instant, and the pirates on board immediately wore expressions of despair.

"Damn it, let's fight these guys to the death!"

"Those hateful Blood Demon and Marines! Since they won't give us a way to live, we'll carve out our own path to survival!"

On the pirate ship with its sails burned away, a group of New World pirates were filled with despair, looking at the giant Sea King chasing from behind with a desperate, ruthless glint in their eyes.

However, shortly after, a giant pink Shenron suddenly flew up from the Marine warship next to the giant Sea King, whistling through the air as it landed on the pirate ship.

From the body of the pink giant dragon jumped down several agile beauties: the Retreat-Retreat Fruit user Ain, the Cage-Cage Fruit user Tina, the Whip-Whip Fruit user Kongque, as well as Tashigi and Yunque—all of them famous and notable beautiful Marines.

What was even more shocking was the strength of these beautiful Marines; they swept through the entire pirate ship with ease, as if tigers had entered a flock of sheep. These New World pirates on the ship, who would have bounties in the millions even in the Four Seas, were all blasted away the moment they faced these female Marines.

Even the captain of the pirate ship, a Gold-Carving Fruit user with a bounty of 380 million, along with his three subordinates who each had bounties over 100 million, were completely overwhelmed by various attacks after holding out for only two or three moves when facing these female Marines.

"As expected... we've become much stronger... whether it's Haki or physical fitness, it's completely incomparable to before."

Kongque, holding a whip in her hand, looked at her fist with an excited smile on her face. Yunque, standing beside her, also nodded: "I really didn't expect that Lord Feiyu would possess such magical power, increasing our strength so much all at once!"

"Hehe, and back then when you were told to go serve Lord Feiyu in his bed, you were still struggling desperately, shouting 'no, no'? But after one night, you were clinging to Lord Feiyu, refusing to leave even when told to."

A faint, teasing remark came from behind. Tina, smoking a cigarette, looked at the two, instantly causing the two little birds to blush deep red.

When these two new beauties first arrived, Uchiha Feiyu happened to want to try something fresh, so he did not use the Heavenly Demon Secret to control them, but instead possessed them roughly.

And the initial struggling and crying of Yunque and Kongque did indeed let Uchiha Feiyu taste something fresh; however, along with Dual Cultivation, the two soon, like the other women, completely succumbed to Uchiha Feiyu's methods.

"Ugh... Tina, why are you still talking about what happened back then? Now we have surrendered to Lord Feiyu heart and soul!"

Kongque played with the tip of the whip in her hand unconsciously, saying it as if she didn't care, and the blushing Yunque also nodded: "That's right! Lord Feiyu also said that our performance back then did indeed make him feel it was very fresh and interesting!"

"Stop chatting! Search the pirate ship, see if there is any treasure, and then we will leave."

Just as the conversation among the women became increasingly off-track and explicit, Momousagi stopped them in time, sending them off to clean up the battlefield.

After searching the pirate ship and finding some pirate treasures, Momousagi transformed back into the pink giant dragon and flew back to the giant Sea King with the several female Marine officers.

At this moment, a large palace had already been built upon the giant Sea King—this was, of course, not something built in a short time, but a palace that Kongque had driven down from an island using the power of the Whip-Whip Fruit.

If Kongque's Whip-Whip Fruit were developed to its limit, it would be about the same as the mountain-driving whip from myths and legends, capable of even driving high mountains and islands; moving mountains and filling seas would be entirely up to her will.

This Devil Fruit might not be outstanding for combat, but if used for infrastructure, this Devil Fruit is probably no worse than the Golden Lion's Fuwa Fuwa no Mi.

Walking into the palace, Momousagi and her party looked up to see Uchiha Feiyu sitting cross-legged in the very center of the palace, his body constantly transforming between a blood shadow and a human form.

Although Uchiha Feiyu's life had been very extravagant and decadent during this period, he had never slacked off in his cultivation of strength, especially after he was able to cultivate Demonic Arts in the One Piece World.

During this time, apart from the multi-person Dual Cultivation activities at night, Uchiha Feiyu spent the rest of his time cultivating his own Blood Scripture. The blood energy within his body had long since accumulated enough, but he had been held back by physical evolution and the purity of his energy, which was why he had been unable to bring the Blood Scripture to completion.

During this time, Uchiha Feiyu's main body had been constantly purifying energy through hard cultivation, while this avatar had begun to constantly strengthen his physical body—the world rules of the Naruto World lean more towards energy, while the world rules of the One Piece World lean more towards the physical body; utilizing the different world rules of the two worlds for cultivation can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

With the authentic Blood Scripture, Uchiha Feiyu could cultivate the authentic Blood Sea Shura Body, and he had been working towards this direction during this time.

However, compared to the pirated Shura Body he had pieced together in the One Piece World, the difficulty of cultivating a true Shura was completely incomparable.

An authentic Shura, no matter how weak, is at the level of an Immortal Demon, and even in mythology, among Immortal Demons of the same level, the Shura's physical fitness is of an outstanding type.

Placed in the One Piece World, an orthodox Shura, even with just physical strength, would be enough to destroy the entire One Piece planet's civilization.

If combined with the Dharma Power cultivated from the Blood Scripture, let alone a planetary civilization, even the planet itself could be completely destroyed.

With such a powerful Shura Body, even though Uchiha Feiyu was still a long way from reaching completion, his physical strength was already incomparable to before. The original knock-off Shura Body, even if cultivated to completion, would at most have the strength of Charlotte Linlin's Iron Balloon and the Beast Pirates Kaido's Undying Body combined, which has no comparability to the authentic Shura Body—the authentic Shura possesses roughly the physical strength of the cinematic version of Superman, which is not something an Iron Balloon or an Undying Body can compare to.

As Momousagi and the others entered the palace, the original blood shadow trembled and turned into a mass of crimson blood, then condensed into the figure of Uchiha Feiyu.

When his figure condensed, Momousagi and the others seemed to see a monstrous sea of blood rushing towards them; fortunately, the group had decent strength, so they did not show any unseemly expressions.

Uchiha Feiyu, standing in the center of the palace, was like a blood-red sun, radiating terrifying Qi and Blood; the palace even stirred with sounds like ocean waves, which only calmed down after a long while. He stretched, and with a series of cracking sounds, Uchiha Feiyu's body twitched, growing ten centimeters taller in a very short time, before slowly shrinking back to its original state.

Yet in this series of changes, Uchiha Feiyu's body had undergone another round of compression, and both his physical fitness and the strength of the Qi and Blood within his body had improved significantly.

"Momousagi, have the pirates on the other side been dealt with?"

Uchiha Feiyu, having returned to his original appearance, glanced at the female Marine officers who had walked in and asked casually.

"It was solved very easily, it's just that we didn't find anything good on the pirate ship."

Momousagi waved her hand and said very easily.

"Is that so... the probability of us encountering pirates during this period seems to have increased quite a bit, and they are all heading in the direction of Wano Country."

Uchiha Feiyu stroked his chin, sat on the chair behind him, and began to analyze:

"It seems I guessed correctly, most of the pirates in the New World have run to Wano Country! Tsk, it seems the alliance between Kaido and Charlotte Linlin has really given this group of pirates in the New World quite a bit of confidence!"

"Rather than calling it confidence, it's more that you, my lord, have put too much pressure on them, and they had no choice but to make this decision. Otherwise, with the personalities of these pirates, how could they possibly band together?"

Momousagi said with a giggle, and as she spoke, she walked to the front of Uchiha Feiyu, slowly knelt down, loosened her collar, hugged Uchiha Feiyu's feet, and began to massage his legs.

Behind Momousagi, that group of Marine beauties also surrounded him one by one, some using their tongues, some using their jade-like bosoms, striving to serve Uchiha Feiyu.

Uchiha Feiyu let out a long sigh of relief and narrowed his eyes: "Don't tangle with these pirates anymore; head directly to Wano Country. I believe at least half of the pirates in the New World have already gathered there."

"When the time comes, as long as I round up all those pirates, this world will become something in my pocket."

After making up his mind, Uchiha Feiyu and his party no longer cared about the pirates they encountered on the way; as long as the other party did not launch an attack on them, he would not fight back, but instead put all his focus on the journey.

Facts proved that Uchiha Feiyu's guess was not wrong. Not long after, as the giant Sea King slowly approached Wano Country, everyone saw a large number of pirate ships around Wano Country.

"So many ships! There must be nearly a thousand of them!"

"Wano Country's terrain is special, so these pirate ships haven't entered Wano Country, but are on the periphery... but since they haven't entered the inner port of Wano Country, I guess these pirates aren't any powerful Great Pirates."

Everything among pirates is distributed according to strength; those with strength can naturally go to Wano Country and enter the inner port, while those without strength act as cannon fodder on the outside. This kind of thing is too normal.

And as the giant Sea King approached, those miscellaneous pirate ships circling the periphery of Wano Country also became chaotic, as if they were a frightened flock of sheep.

There is no help for it; pirates are not Marines after all, and they have no unified command at all. The pirates on the periphery of Wano Country can even be called a mob.

Under these circumstances, facing the menacing giant Sea King, not scattering in a flurry at the first moment was already due to the fact that these pirates had a bit of morale because of their large numbers.

Looking at the pirates in front of him, Uchiha Feiyu did not make a move immediately. Now, whether it was the soul power he had absorbed or the Qi and Blood energy, he had already reached a limit; these "human resources" could now only be used as savings.

The Black Qi used as sacrifices was also not of much use anymore. Now, Uchiha Feiyu no longer had much need for cultivation techniques below the Immortal Demon level.

So he very simply took out a White Bone Banner, stuck it in the center of the palace, and looked at the beauties under his command:

"Leave these small-fry Pirates to you all; finish them all off!"

The Nether Bone Banner can be considered the most common magical artifact in the Demonic Path. Magical artifacts of the Demonic Path like this White Bone Banner or the Ten Thousand Soul Banner have very similar effects—they are essentially refined from items like bones, blood, skin, and Souls. They have a special attack effect against life and also absorb things like Souls and blood. The more they absorb, the greater their power, and there is practically no upper limit.

Of course, an upper limit is one thing, but most people of the Demonic Path who don't know their own limits and crazily slaughter to refine these artifacts basically don't have good endings—the vast majority of those in the Demonic Path who cultivate through slaughter, unless they truly become big shots like Styx Old Ancestor or Poxun, or become subordinates of these big shots, are basically on a dead-end path.

In fact, the Shura under Styx Old Ancestor and the Heavenly Demons under Mojun Bo Xun already belong to the "within the system" demons to a certain extent. Every move they make must follow rules. Even they dare not openly and endlessly cultivate things like the White Bone Banner or the Ten Thousand Soul Banner; at most, they sneakily gather some Souls.

As for the reason Uchiha Feiyu stuck it here, it was naturally to not waste the upcoming feast—this Nether Bone Banner was made by Uchiha Feiyu last time using Pirate captives from Dressrosa. As long as it is set up here, it can absorb the Souls and blood within a certain sea area, saving Uchiha Feiyu from having to do it himself.

Hearing Uchiha Feiyu's order, Hancock, Momousagi, and Shirahoshi immediately looked at each other, revealing a bit of competitive spirit.

Currently, in Uchiha Feiyu's harem, only the three of them have a large group of followers. As for Nami, Robin, and Princess Vivi, although they are very favored, their strength is indeed much weaker than the three of them, and they don't have any subordinates, so they are naturally not as useful as the three of Hancock in battle.

The two princesses of Dressrosa do have some manpower, but they joined late and their strength is poor, so they certainly cannot compare to the three of Hancock.

(End of this chapter)